Fierce Interrobangs

curated in partnership with Warwick Arts Centre

Fierce’s Interrobangs are mash-ups of art and performance, playful audience interaction, games, discussion, seminars, workshops, tea stands, research events, unstructured socializing, activism and direct action.

What to expect:

• Workshops with Fierce Festival Caravan of Artists 2010 – 2011, Eitan Buchalter, Kira O’Reilly and Manu Luksch & Mukul Patel.
• You can discover the history of Warwick University’s contentious origins through the Reinvention Centre’s The Idea of a University and glimpse the future through laser cut models of the planned regeneration of Far Gosford St, Coventry.
• See works-in-progress by emerging West Midland based artists.
• Watch screenings of activist films Guerilla Gardening by David Bond and Faceless by Manu Luksch and Mukul Patel.
• Get your hands dirty building stoves and gardening with Plane Stupid campaigner, Lily Kember.
• Engage in discussion with playfully subversive architecture collective EXYZT.
• Hear audiovisual sets by bitJAM and Chromatouch.

Every Interrobang day will be different. You can be there for five minutes or all three days. You may be building something, tearing something down, dashing through the streets in escape of someone. There will be a range of participatory activities, some scheduled and some not.

The event will finish with an evening of fun and games with Hide&Seek’s
Sandpit.

See full schedule below or download it as a word document.

Thu 25 Jun

All day:
The Idea of a University (an exhibition exploring the origins and development of Warwick University with archival photographs and oral testimonies) curated by The Reinvention Centre.

Regeneration plans and models for Far Gosford St, Coventry – an insight into a forthcoming urban regeneration initiative.

Archival Imagery of Coventry during and immediately after WWII.

Free tea and coffee.

11am: Tea, biscuits and cake – all welcome.

3pm: The Far Gosford St Creative Business Theme Group: council discussion group meeting; observe politics in action.

4pm: Film Screenings: So Oder Anders (13mins, AT 1996) by Manu Luksch and Mukul Patel – the regeneration of a market square in Vienna. Guerilla Gardening, (8mins), directed by David Bond and produced by Ashley Jones.

5.30pm: Private View for The Idea of a University exhibition (all welcome)

6.30pm – 7.30pm: On Call: Open surgery for art ideas exchange (all welcome)

7pm – 8.30pm: Panel discussion: What is Regeneration?
Speakers include Dr Catherine Lambert (University of Warwick) and Andy Duncan (Coventry Council).

8.30pm – 9.30pm: Salon: a freeform discussion on cultural regeneration.

9.30pm: bitJAM live audio-visual set

Fri 25 Jun

All day:
The Idea of a University (an exhibition exploring the origins and development of Warwick University with archival photographs and oral testimonies) curated by The Reinvention Centre.

Regeneration plans and models for Far Gosford St, Coventry – an insight into a forthcoming urban regeneration initiative.

Archival Imagery of Coventry during and immediately after WWII.

Interventions from Platinum Artists throughout the day. Platinum is an Arts Council England funded artist development scheme. The artists are: Cody Lee Barbour, Companis, Louie O’Grady, Leon Trimble, Arzhang Pezhman, Jaskirt Dhaliwa.

Free tea and coffee.

11am: Tea, biscuits and cake – all welcome.

11.30am – 1.30pm: Workshop: Silent Walk with Kira O’Reilly. A walk across campus and maybe beyond. Anyone can take the lead but no-one speaks.

1.30pm – 2.30pm: Reinvention Centre discussion of The Idea of a University exhibition.

3pm – 4.30pm: Stan’s Cafe, The Commentators, Brazil v Portugal, watch the World Cup game in the Mead Gallery with a commentary substituted by theatre collective Stan’s Cafe.

3.30pm: Film Screenings: So Oder Anders (13mins, AT 1996) by Manu Luksch and Mukul Patel – the regeneration of a market square in Vienna. Guerilla Gardening, (8mins), directed by David Bond and produced by Ashley Jones.

4.30pm – 5.30pm: On Call: Open surgery for art ideas exchange (all welcome)

7.30pm: Lily Kember, Plane Stupid campaigner and ‘Activist of the Year, Independent Green Awards, talks about Transition Town Heathrow and direct action.

9pm: audiovisual set from Chromatouch

Sat 26 Jun

All day:
The Idea of a University (an exhibition exploring the origins and development of Warwick University with archival photographs and oral testimonies) curated by The Reinvention Centre.

Regeneration plans and models for Far Gosford St, Coventry – an insight into a forthcoming urban regeneration initiative.

Archival Imagery of Coventry during and immediately after WWII.

Live Art Development Agency Micro-Library.

Workshop: DIY and Activism with Lily Kember (Transition Heathrow, Plane Stupid)

Free tea and coffee.

11am: Tea, biscuits and cake – all welcome.

11.30am: Performance by Eitan Buchalter

12 – 1pm: Film Screenings: Faceless (50mins) and Mapping CCTV around Whitehall (3mins): films by Manu Luksch and Mukul Patel. A radical look at CCTV culture and the commercialisation of public space.

3pm – 4pm: Workshop: Function Creep with Manu Luksch and Mukul Patel. Collectively imagine an alternative community in the year 2030 with Fierce Festival artists.

4.15pm: Talk: EXYZT, Nicholas Henninger. Key members of subversive architecture collective EXYZT gives insights into former and future projects. EXYZT are famed for unexpected interventions in public space like creating a wheatfield in East London, or an outdoor sauna near Waterloo Station.

5pm – 6pm: Workshop: Eitan Buchalter. How to become an expert and intervene in public space. A site specific workshop around Warwick Arts Centre. (sign up on the day, only 10 places)

6pm – till late: Hide&Seek International Sandpit. An explosion of social games around the Arts Centre.

Dates & Times

Thu 24 Jun		11:00am
Fri 25 Jun		11:00am
Sat 26 Jun		11:00am